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001 2010008973
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008 100305s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn502037196
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050 00 $aPN2637$b.S53 2010
082 00 $a792.02/80820944$222
100 1 $aScott, Virginia,$d1934-2014.
245 10 $aWomen on the stage in early modern France :$b1540-1750 /$cVirginia Scott.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $aix, 325 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface; 1. The actress and the anecdote; 2. 'So perverse was her wantonness': antitheatricalism and the actress; 3. In the beginning: 'Twelve Livres per year'; 4. 'Those diverting little ways': 1630-1640; 5. 'Mademoiselle L'Étoile': 1640-1700; 6. 'Embellished by art': 1680-1720; 7. Lives and afterlives: 1700-2010; Works consulted.
650 0 $aActresses$zFrance$vBiography.
650 0 $aTheater$zFrance$xHistory.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/96757/cover/9780521896757.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010008973-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010008973-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010008973-t.html